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Matters of state

"This collection of essays, chosen by the author from sixty years of writing for The New Yorker (and elsewhere), chronicles people and places in politics with a central emphasis on our presidential inaugurations."—BOOK JACKET.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 166 pages

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